L. M. Milne-Thomson
Louis Melville Milne-Thomson | |
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Born | Hydrodynamics | 1 May 1891
Institutions | Winchester College Royal Naval College University of Arizona |
Louis Melville Milne-Thomson
Early years and career
Milne-Thomson was born in
In 1914 Milne-Thomson joined Winchester College in Hampshire as an assistant mathematics master and taught there for next seven years. In 1921 he was appointed professor of mathematics at the Royal Naval College, Greenwich and remained there until retirement at the age of 65.[2]
In 1933 he was elected a Fellow of the
After retiring from the Royal Naval College, Milne-Thomson took up various posts as Visiting Professor at various institutions around the world, including the Brown University at Rhode Island, the US Army Mathematics Research Center at the University of Wisconsin (1958–1960), the University of Arizona (1961–1970), University of Rome (1968), the University of Queensland (1969), the University of Calgary (1970), and finally the University of Otago (1971).[3] At the end of a long career Milne-Thomson quit academia in 1971 and went to live in Sevenoaks, Kent where he died at the age of 83.[3]
Work
During the early stages of his career, he developed and compiled several mathematical tables such as the Standard Four Figure Mathematical Tables jointly constructed with L. J. Comrie and published in 1931, Standard Table of Square Roots (1932), and Jacobian Elliptic Function Tables (1932). Later, Milne-Thomson wrote the chapters on Elliptic Integrals and Jacobian Elliptic Functions in the classic
In 1933 Milne-Thomson published his first book, The Calculus of Finite Differences which became a classic textbook and the original text was reprinted in 1951. In the mid 1930s, Milne-Thomson developed an interest in
References
- ISBN 978-0-521-66396-0.
- ^ a b c Croarken, Mary (2004). Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press.
- ^ a b c Louis Melville Milne-Thomson. 1974.
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